"I knew you'd come." Loki said chuckling, when he saw her shocked face, as her focus got ripped out of her notes when hearing him walk behind her. It was past midnight and she was lying on her stomach next to the Bifrost Markings with her equipment, while she was writing something into her book. Out of the sudden this man was standing next to her in the middle of the night. Her perplexed expression faded and made room for anger.
"Are you serious?" Loki could see the annoyance on her face, while she got up, crossing her arms before of her chest. "Don't you have something else to do? Like being at home with your family or feeding your cats? Or maybe sleeping?" She didn't want to be rude, but why on earth was he spying on her? She would have called the police, if she wouldn't get arrested on trespassing private grounds, which did belong to this man in front of her, unfortunately.
Loki couldn't help himself, he burst out laughing. "I could ask you the same question." She dared to talk to him like that even though she believed him being the owner, making that reality her the one, who was not allowed to be here. He shook his head, still chuckling when his eyes met hers. "I am sorry, but you are just a horrible liar. The next time you are planning on coming back at night, let someone else do the talking, maybe I would have believed your friends."
Jane stared at him baffled. Had he just made fun of her? Again? She sighed, not wanting to start a fight. "I know, I always have been."
"So what is it you are doing really?" His eyes sparkled, when he looked upon the symbols in the ground. "It seems much more important than some pictures."
Jane rolled her eyes. She knew she would not be able to work here, if he wouldn't let her. "I am a scientist." She started to explain. "I would like to investigate these signs." She pointed at the circle on the ground. "And since I don't have a degree on linguistics, yet, I just want to know why my equipment is reacting to these markings so much."
"Ah." Loki nodded interested. "So what would you like to find out?"
"What or who did this and if it is something from earth." She answered.
"So you are suspecting that it was an alien." He had heard this word before, when he had listened to a conversation between two people, discussing life on other planets. Nevertheless, he couldn't stay serious, while saying this strange word.
"Well not like E.T. or something." She answered. "But I refuse to believe that we are the only living beings around. The universe is far too big for only us."
"E.T.?" The Demigod asked confused.
"E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial, you know, the movie?"
Loki shook his head as an answer, he had no idea what she was talking about. He would rather not ask what a movie was, since she had already been looking at him as if he had just told her what he was.
"Wow!" She closed her mouth again, which had been open for the last seconds. "Have you been living on the moon or something?"
"Something like that." He laughed taking a seat next to her on the ground. Jane followed him with her eyes disconcerted.
"What? Are you planning on standing there the whole night?" He asked sarcastically, looking up to her.
"Aren't you going to kick me off your property?" She asked stunned.
"No." He replied. "But if you are going to investigate this..." he bit his tongue, because he almost would have said Bifrost Markings, "thing, then I'll join you."
Jane's features softened. Was he really planning on staying with her over the night? "Uhm..." She scratched her head. "Fine, but I don't want to hear any sarcastic remarks from you."
The man raised his hands as a sign of yielding. "I would never." he smirked.
"That," she pointed at him, "is what I meant. No mocking comments."
"Fine." Loki said, lowering his hands again, but still smiling. "So tell me, what have you got so far?"
"I won't be telling my investigations to you, how do I know, you're not going to steal them from me and then publish them in your name?"
"I promise. But I understand, I'll let you do your work then and I'll just sit here and watch you in silent." He made a movement as if he was holding something between his fingertips, he moved his fingers to his lips and pretended he was locking his mouth with an invisible key.
"Thank you." she sat herself next to him, taking her device back into her hand and started writing into her notebook once more.
One hour later Jane's hair was tousled again and she was biting her pen, scanning her notes with furrowed brows. Loki was observing her features, being amused, it seemed she would rake her fingers through her hair when she was trying to get the answer for something she didn't understand. He felt sympathies for her and the urge of helping the woman overcame him. "You made a mistake there." He said pointing at her scribbling.
"Excuse me?" Jane looked at him appalled.
"You made a mistake." He repeated.
"I told you, no sarcastic commentary." She said not believing this man could ever understand what she was doing.
He sighed, rolling his eyes. "Look," he took her notebook out of her hand without asking and pointed at a circle she had drawn with calculations on the side. "the way I see it, you are trying to understand the universe as circles or lines -"
"Geodesics." Jane corrected him.
"Yes well, it seems to make sense in theory, but the gravity is nothing like that."
"How would you know?"
"It is simply something I believe." He quickly answered. "I think that every matter is its own matter, yet everything is connected with each other. Every atom has its purpose and is linked to another. For example the air, we do not see it, yet it is there and it lets us stay alive. Nevertheless on the moon there is no oxygen, so the matter changes over the distance and yet it is connected with that of the earth, since it's circling around it since millions of years. It is the same with the sun and the stars and other galaxies. The whole universe is connected through matter, so if you pretend the atoms being bricks - just simply explained - with which you could build a structure, you could build a bridge to another realm, which is already linked to the earth like branches of a tree. So in my eyes it has nothing to do with theoretical math and calculations or lines and circles, it is simply physics."
Jane looked at him dumbfounded. Had this man just really queried Einstein's theory of relativity? She was speechless.
"What?" The Demigod asked laughing, when he had noticed what he had done. "It is merely a theory."
"Uhm, well..." she stammered looking at her notebook in his hand. "and in you're theory, how does one break the time barrier? I mean if it would be possible to travel over a bridge, we would still be dead by the time we would make it to any star we see, let alone another realm. I mean, for example Sirius is 8.4 light-years remote."
"I don't know what Sirius is, but it's a simple explanation: travel at speed of light." He said shrugging his shoulders.
"Of course." It was now her who was sarcastically. "We would shatter into millions of tiny pieces!"
"Humans would." He mumbled, so that she couldn't hear it.
"What?"
"Nothing. You are right I am sorry." He decided not to say more, otherwise he would have to give away his knowledge. He gave the book back to Jane looking into her puzzled eyes.
How could this man be so smart? Was he a physicist as well? It wasn't all making sense in the woman's mind, but it was an interesting theory. She decided to conduct research on this conjecture the next day, she wouldn't be a good scientist if she wouldn't be open for something new.
"HEY!" A man's voice echoed through the darkness. Jane and Loki looked up to see where it came from and found a light of a torch moving towards them. "What are you doing on these grounds?!" He shouted.
Great. Loki thought annoyed, seeing the light coming closer. "Well I am sorry to hear that you don't know who you're working for." The half-god said when he recognized the word 'security' on his uniform.
The man was now standing in front of them, he was holding a torch and a taser in his hands. Jane couldn't see past the light like Loki, because it dazzled her, since the guard was shining directly into their faces, nevertheless her narrowed eyes showed worry, when seeing the weapon next to the torch; she really didn't feel like getting tasered today.
"Sorry?" The voice behind the torch said confused.
It was a gamble and the chances were fifty fifty. Either this under-educated person knew the proprietor of this industrial park or he didn't. "I am the holder of these grounds." Loki lied convincingly.
"You are John Mckenzie?" The man asked bewildered.
"Yes." The god said relieved, it seemed that he didn't know him in person.
"Oh." The security-person lowered his torch and weapon. "Well, why are you here at night?"
"This woman is a friend of mine, she was searching her dog and I merely wanted to help her, since she called me in the middle of the night to ask if she could enter my property."
"Wha-" Jane felt a punch of Loki's elbow in her ribs, before she could say anymore.
"Ah." The man said scratching his chin. The god rolled his eyes, he clearly wasn't the smartest person on earth.
"So the dog ran onto these grounds?"
"We don't know." Loki quickly explained before Jane could answer. "She only saw him running in this direction and we clearly haven't found him yet."
"Yes. Well I let you get to it then." He nodded at Loki respectfully, "Sir." he said before he turned around to leave. He walked a few steps, when he faced them again. "Did you break the fence?" He asked. "It looks like someone drove through it."
"No." Loki said pretending an upset voice. "Someone must have gotten on my land without permission." He peered at Jane, teasingly, who looked away, being embarrassed.
"You should get it fixed then." The man said, walking away. "Night, sir." He shouted back leaving them alone.
"Thank you." Jane turned back to Loki, looking at him gratefully, when the security-guard had gone out of hearing-distance.
"For what?"
"For not telling him that we were the ones, who broke into your property today AND for not telling him what I was truly doing here."
"You're welcome." He smirked.
"I really thought he would taser us!" She burst out laughing. "I really don't want to know how much that hurts."
"Me neither." Loki chuckled at the memories of Thor's lightnings striking him, whenever he had been teasing him with his illusions. Getting tasered should be definitely less painful.
"Look I know it is impudent of me to ask, but could I come here more often? I would like to finish my work here. And I will of course compensate for the fence."
Loki sighed as if he would relinquish to her wishes. "Fine, you will probably come anyways, but I do not want any more people lurking around on my grounds." He said raising a warning finger.
"Me neither." She agreed thankfully. "So you're name is John Mckenzie." She asked smiling at him, slightly flirty.
"Nice to meet you." He merely said with a smirk, while giving her a hand. "And you are...?
"Jane Foster." She answered shaking his hand with a wide smile.
A/n: Well look who's flirting Jane. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Oh and I wanted to state that I clearly have no idea about science nor physics nor maths. So I am truly sorry if I'm writing Bull... well it is a fanfiction, so who cares right? xD.